Don't go!!!!! FL is about as far from snow as U can get in the US basically!!! The closest places to U will be in NC... maybe GA (I think there are a few resorts there) But, they get so little snow and have such short seasons...... The only option is to travel. So, U may as well just go to CO. It's def going to mean a lot of traveling. Which could be awesome! But also $$$$$$$$$.

I say don't go to FL. It's an awful place anyways.

I don't think I'm bad... I don't box, no karate... just here to make friends with everybody

Alright now that I'm done laughing at you in my head. Of course you'll have to travel, it's florida. Not only is there a lack of mountainous terrain but it's a very warm climate. Only exception is if there is a "snowflex" facility down there which I do not believe there is. I think one of the only one's is in lynchburg, VA.

Closest ski resorts are probably in North Carolina. The NC slopes I've been to were alright but nothing too special - If I were you I'd run the cost of gas and compare it to any cheap deals to fly out west. It would be more worth it to take a couple of epic trips than a handful of mediocre or crappy ones.

Or you could always pick up surfing if you're living near the beach in Florida.

Oh wow, Florida has a warm climate?! I had no idea. I was thinking along the lines of an indoor or snowflex park, but I guess I could have been more specific. The place in lynchburg is just a couple of hours from where I live now, so I wasn't sure how rare they are. Thanks for the info about NC, sarcasm could use a little more effort next time.

depends on where you live in FL, but, overall, I thought it was pretty kick ass.

I lived near the beach in Ft. Lauderdale for a few years and it was like living on a tropical island - warm, clear blue water and they even had some surfable sloppy windswell waves every couple of weeks.

The inland and northern parts of FL are not so great - extremely hot/humid in spring, summer and fall, swarming with mosquitoes and gaint flying roaches. Contrary to popular belief, winter occasionally gets below freezing (but no snow and no hills)

it's kind of a trade off. You can trade the nearby snowboarding and mountains for sunny beaches and surfing nearby. Honestly, it would be an ok trade off to be able to be near some beaches. Just fly to the mountains ever year or so...

Cloudmont in Alabama is a joke. They get only 12 inches of annual snowfall, their snowmaking is as minimal as it gets and have only 2 beginner runs - definitely a locals only hill.

with all due respect, I would consider all the southeast resorts "locals only", too. If you're gonna travel from FL for snow, skip the 10+ hr drive and just get on the plane to Colorado or similar western mega mountains.

for me, surfing is just as fun as snowboarding, so it wouldn't bother me at all living down there...well, I'd have to live under an hour drive from an atlantic beach (the gulf rarely gets surfable waves)

Yep. I'm on the left coast, North of Tampa. Driving is pointless. Hop on a plane whenever you can. I usually get one good trip per year, usually 10 or so days on the slopes. You can get direct flights to CO from Tampa International, and be door to door in half a day, rather than a full day of driving to Tennessee or some other ice ridden East Coast state. It's getting time to start taking 2 trips per year though.

I was throwing the idea of moving to Florida around and it was an option but when it came down to it my wife and I decided it is not the place for us because if the distance to snow. It is really cheap down there and super beautiful but I couldn't live with out snowboarding.
Hoping to move back to Southern CA where you can snowboard, skate and surf all in the same day

^^That's my thoughts too when anyone brings up me moving to a warm place. I can't live without the snow. I really think I wouldn't make it long before I flipped out. So Cal seems like such a perfect place. Warm and sunny most of the time (so surfing and skateboarding would be year round) and yet there's some pretty nice mountains too (so I could shoot up all the snow I want). Downfall seems to be high cost of living (it'd be sticker shock for a mid-west boy) and too many damn people. My area has a high amount of dumbasses, all I need is to live where there's even more (morons seem to outnumber the good people globally).

duck- I'd say if you can't get out of moving that yep, unfortunately going to be going to probably NC to find the nearest snow worth riding. Like others have said- start surfing. Try skateboarding (I suck at it, but it gets me through the summer). Even if you don't do all the flippy tricky stuff just find a park with a bowl, a pool, or a half. Even just banks and trannys are funny to roll on (if you're lame like me).

You could also try Freebording. If you're not firmilar with them check out freebord.com or search it on youtube.

If the concrete ain't your gig, try wakeboarding. Make friends w/ some wakeboarders and get out there. I'm pretty sure there's winch parks in FL. So you wouldn't even have to have a boat. Could even build your own winch for a few hundred and just put a butt ton of line on it. I've seen people with damn near a mile of line on their winches.

I was throwing the idea of moving to Florida around
and it was an option but when it came down to it my wife and I decided
it is not the place for us because if the distance to snow. It is really
cheap down there and super beautiful but I couldn't live with out
snowboarding.
Hoping to move back to Southern CA where you can snowboard, skate and surf all in the same day

conceivably, you could do that...but, practically, you're not.

Any residence in So Cal that's not San Bernardino or east LA is going to be
too long a drive for the only man-made snow at their crowded resorts. Hell, even
the drive from San Bernardino would seem like a gridlock nightmare for anyone who's not used to the congested driving conditions down there.

Surfing in So Cal (Newport to Santa Monica) is just as bad, if not worse. There are relatively
few decent (not closed out) surf spots and, like snowj said, horrible overpopulation down
there means HEAVY competition for good waves...plus you won't be able
to afford living anywhere near the beach and will still have to drive
quite a distance (most likely in gridlock).

I lived in Huntington Beach for 5 years and made the trip to big bear/summit twice a week and sometimes to mt. high.
Where I live in Pennsylvania I live 5 miles from our local mountain but the terrain that I ride is not fun, the vertical drop is only 700 ft.
I really miss it in California. I am applying to so many jobs to get my family back out there (in due time)
I don't actually surf but it is a cool concept that you could potentiality to all there activities.
I liked riding my fixed gear and the roads in Southern California are so nice compared to where I live now.

My favorite thing when we were in Huntington Beach was leaving super early to go snowboarding during a nice storm and coming home and having a bonfire or a bbq.

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